Comments on: Infinite Infanticide

By: Chris Carrier

Chris Carrier — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:09:55 +0000

Oh, I just finished Ape and Essence, having read it long ago enough to have forgotten. My God! How could I forget this book — it was stunning and wonderful and despite the seeming pessimism ends with great hope. I read it thinking okay, either Poole dies or gets castrated. I kept thinking of Planet of the Apes and the scientists who were either murdered or reduced to dumb primates. The notion that advanced knowledge would be meaningless in an dystopian society where everyday struggles involved food, shelter and (gulp) reproduction.

Oh, Aldous. Thank you.

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Superlatives 2007 « biblioklept — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:47:03 +0000

[...] Children of Men (yeah, I know it came out in 2006–I saw it in 2007 though) and Superbad. If you were to make [...]

By: Ellie Robins

Ellie Robins — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:17:06 +0000

I was terrifically excited to find this blog while researching dystopian literature sites, as I believe I may be able to inform you of a book that might be right up your street…

I’m writing from an independent publishing house called Hesperus Press, where we recently published the early work of science fiction ‘The Coming Race’ by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It tells of a subterranean race of superhuman beings who owe their power to a substance called Vril; moreover, it comes complete with a foreword by the journalist and scholar Matthew Sweet, who drew parallels between it and ‘Children of Men’ in the interview he gave for our online magazine, at http://www.hesperuspress.com/magazine/interviews.asp?num=26.

Although Bulwer-Lytton has been much maligned as an author, the novella is terrifically good fun, in part because of its more ridiculous aspects; it can throw a really interesting light on more modern works of science fiction.

If you would like any information on this or any other of our publications, please do not hesitate to contact me on enquiries@hesperuspress.com.

Yours,

Ellie Robins, Hesperus Press.